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Does anyone have a clue as to how the public freak out subreddit went from chud central to actually be quite good (very pro Palestine and slaps down actual antisemitism)? (hexbear.net)

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Iirc there was a split a while back, splintered off into truepublicfreakout or smth that was hella reactionary. So maybe that siphoned off a lot of the chuds.

I think the genre itself is sus, any of that cringe/reaction type content is ripe for fash agitation. But it's cool that the subreddit is decent now

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah, it’s probably a problem but I like the fight footage because it reassures me.

The posts making fun of enraged Kyle/Karen types are also nice because I work retail mostly.

I love how reactionaries split almost as much as other, leftist, strains of thought.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

Yeah they can be a guilty pleasure for me

Not inherently problematic on a personal level, they just seem to occupy that reactionary pipeline space socially.